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...pupils are Fontainebleau alumni. Instead of a palace for their studio, they have a roomy, north-lighted barn which last year was Gull Hill School's stable, next year will be its gymnasium. Instead of Paris they have Provincetown. Artist Despujols looks at Cape Cod's scrub pines, sand dunes and squat frame houses with a cheerful eye. Says he: "It is not the Isle de France but it is equally paintable...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' collected short stories have good claim to being a better book than her big bestseller, The Yearling. When the Whippoorwill contains eleven stories, including a novelette (Jacob's Ladder) which first put Florida's "scrub" back country on the map and Author Rawlings among the ranks of the South's best regional writers...
With far fewer sentimental soft spots than The Yearling, Author Rawlings' short stones deal with such Florida crackers as starvation-haunted farmers, hunters, trappers, fishermen, moonshiners. Readers of The Yearling know her sharp ear for dialect, her landscapist's feelings for the scrub country. Her short stories show an equal talent for high-spirited folk humor...
Result of this advertising fracas is that Americans are the cleanest people on earth. Annually they scrub themselves and belongings with some 24 Ibs. (equal to almost 110 toilet-size cakes) of soap apiece. Next come the Dutch, two pounds under the U. S. record. With its worldwide coverage in soaps C-P-P would be sitting pretty if other nations would follow suit. The hot-water-bathing Japanese, for instance. Last year the race that scorned Caleb Johnson's Palmolive did no better than six cakes of soap apiece...
slums, twisting, writhing blocks of slums. garbage in the streets. acid yellow soap. floors, cockroaches. filth... arms ache. knees sting "Seen what we got to scrub...